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The Seaboard System Railroad, Inc. (reporting mark SBD) was a US Class I railroad that operated from 1982 to 1986.. Since the late 1960s, Seaboard Coast Line Industries had operated the Seaboard Coast Line and its sister railroads—notably the Louisville & Nashville and Clinchfield—as the "Family Lines System".
The largest owner of the SD45-2 was the Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe with 90 units, the Clinchfield had 18 units, Seaboard Coast Line had 15 units and Erie Lackawanna rostered 13 units. A few cabless SD45-2Bs were built by Santa Fe from units undergoing remanufacturing.
For years, SAL had been popularly known as "Seaboard," while ACL was known as "the Coast Line." Prior to the creation of Amtrak on May 1, 1971, the Seaboard Coast Line provided passenger service over much of its system, including local passenger trains on some lines. [3] Local trains ended when the Amtrak era began.
155 locomotives were rebuilt by the Seaboard Coast Line. The vast majority of them came from Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Air Line and their subsidiaries (Atlanta and West Point Railroad, Charleston and Western Carolina Railway, Georgia Railroad, Western Railway of Alabama, Winston-Salem Southbound Railway); eight units came from Clinchfield Railroad (with one of them ex Nashville ...
The GE U36B is a four-axle 3,600 hp (2.7 MW) B-B diesel-electric locomotive produced by General Electric from 1969 to 1974. It was primarily used by the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad and its successors, although thirteen provided the power for the original Auto Train.
While still independent, the L&N had long standing links to the Atlantic Coast Line, and other railroads in the region began to worry about a combined L&N/SCL system. [11] In 1969, the Seaboard Coast Line created Seaboard Coast Line Industries as a holding company. The Seaboard Coast Line Railroad had already held some of L&N's stock, but the ...
The B36-7 was developed from the B30-7, and externally is identical to its predecessor. [1] The first 4 B36-7s were built for the Cotton Belt in January 1980, as modified B30-7s with increased horsepower and several new design features: according to Extra 2200 South magazine these units featured General Electric's new Sentry Adhesion System, a wheel slip detection system.
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad: Seaboard Air Line Railway: SAL: 1900 1945 Seaboard Air Line Railroad: Seaboard Air Line System: SAL: 1893 1900 Seaboard Air Line Railway: Seaboard Coast Line Railroad: SCL 1967 1983 Seaboard System Railroad: Seaboard and Raleigh Railroad: ACL: 1873 1883 Albemarle and Raleigh Railroad: Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad ...